Chapter 46 “We should not linger here!” protested Ash Vani tremulously. She looked around with dread. The small threesome crossed a knot of old, broken trees. As the natural light dwindled. They trampled through ferns, breathing in the air thick with pollen. They well knew it to flummox minds, and it weighed heavily on […]
Chapter 42 My beloved is the most beautiful, amongst thousands and thousands. A stray thought. She contemplated her navel for a time. She may have imagined hearing a distant voice as Eulin flickered above her head. She couldn’t be sure. It was far away and washed-out by other sounds. The quartet un~vanished from nothingness and […]
Chapter 24 The Grand Ballroom bustled with courtesans, as entitled people with lavish trinkets attended the summit. The attendees mingled, opulently Virtue signalling as the gentry often did. Back and forth above their sparkling flutes of expensive liquors, whilst indulging in their personal debaucheries. A dandy but a deceitful way of life thought Ash Vani, […]
Chapter 19 It was remarkably quiet. Silent like the calmness that permeates the ether before the eve of the Tempest. The morning mist marched from the fields of lavender wheat down towards the lowland pastures, Hidden in their holes they lingered, their bodies camouflaged, as they laid in wait for the lioness of the Queen’s […]
Chapter 10 The sound of steel clanking and panic hung in the air, as people ran frantically for their lives towards the only exit, they were running from their seats toward the entrance, trampling the ones that moved slowly but they were cut down easily anyway. Some lied askew on the mosaic floor as their […]
Chapter 9 Brownie felt apprehensive as she waited outside the small room that Bieber called ” her office”. Outside the portal of redwood and brass marquetry. It was no different to the other doors just an essential looking screen to shut out unpleasantness. Beiber had asked Brownie to meet her here after lunch and empathized […]
Chapter 8 Eulin felt slightly peccant as he flew away. He had missed the feeling of flying, the wind beneath his wings, spreading his primaries to the air, feeling them ruffle back and forth in the turbulence of the wind. This was indeed his first long flight since his accident. It felt good; it was […]
Chapter 6 It had been 33 days and 33 nights …companionship with Kay & Eulin, had grown gradually as time went on, they seemed to trust her, she had learned a lot about the pair of them and the unique Martian customs and its culture, its little quirks and eccentricities. Eulin enjoyed singing early in […]
Chapter 5 After the laughter had died down, the three of them began to slowly scramble to their feet, shrugging off their aches and pains they reoriented themselves “let’s get this door closed!” Kay said as he pushed the door too and slid the bolts home. Brownie felt positively bedraggled, dusty and damp she cast […]
Chapter 4 It was the 520th day; this year had been irksome the winter months had been too cold, and the snow had fallen relentlessly, pearling onto people’s roof terraces and by the sides of the promenade, the last piles of snow turning from pink to dark grey blobs. The spring had been far too […]